UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon met with Russia’s FM in Moscow. Aleksandr Pikaev from the Commitee of Scientists for Global Security says reforms in the UN would directly affect the interests of all the world’s major powers.

The Russian market has seen talk of interest rate rises, as the Central Bank deals with worse-than-expected inflation data. Aleksandr Kotchoubey, the head of investment Committee at Renaissance Investment Management, discussed the issue with RT.

Russia should be more involved in UN peacekeeping missions, according to Aleksey Borisov - deputy chair of the United Nations Association of Russia. He says as a co-founder of the UN, Russia is responsible for international peace

Poland has threatened to maintain its veto on EU-Russia partnership talks. To look in closer detail at it may mean, Dmitry Babich from Russia Profile magazine spoke to RT.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will meet Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday. Victoria Panova, a political analyst from Moscow State Institute of International Relations, discusses the meeting’s agenda.

Lieutenant General Raad Al-Hamdani, the Commander-in-Chief of the second corps in the Iraqi Republican Army gave an exclusive interview to Rusiya Al-Yaum - Russia Today’s sister channel, broadcasting in Arabic.